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openedge development platform Progress has created the OpenEdge development environment, in order to isolate developers from the complexities of today's computing environments. This consequently allows developers to concentrate on what really matters: the business logic of their application. Applications built on the OpenEdge platform are reportedly portable, reliable, and scalable, yet require fewer administrative resources than other deployment platforms. In layman’s terms, users describe it as a runtime engine that just runs and

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On the eve of its recent Progress Exchange 2014 conference, Progress acquired its longstanding partner BravePoint, Inc., a Georgia-based subsidiary of Chesapeake Utilities Corporation and a provider of consulting, training, and application development services. This acquisition significantly extends Progress’s services capabilities and enhances its ability to help its partners and customers modernize their existing IT assets.

Progress recently agreed to acquire privately held Telerik AD, a Bulgarian provider of application development tools. According to TEC's P.J. Jakovljevic, the combination of Progress and Telerik will create a comprehensive cloud and on-premise platform offering that enables developers to rapidly create appealing applications driven by data for any device or cloud.

By P.J. Jakovljevic (see bio) and Bob Eastman (see bio)
As it has been excruciatingly painful for die-hard Boston Red Sox fans to watch their moribund baseball team’s previous two seasons, it has been puzzling and perhaps also painful for enterprise software market observers to watch the coinciding self-implosion of sorts of the New England software vendor Progress Software Corporation. For

By P.J. Jakovljevic (see bio) and Bob Eastman (see bio)
Last week in the TEC blog, we discussed Progress Software’s history and current focus. The company has experienced many changes in the last couple of years, including divestiture of some large assets (including Sonic, Actional, and DataXtend), and a new focus. We also mentioned the Progress Exchange 2013 conference earlier this month

Lawson has unveiled a new standards-based business applications platform designed to increase overall application quality and improve the product lifecycle experience for current and future Lawson clients.

The recruitment and staffing software company, Career22 announced the launch of an online staffing platform that takes advantage of crowdsourcing. The company's aim is to assist employers with finding and pre-qualifying job candidates.
Career22’s solution relies on industry experts who assist with the development of proficiency exams that candidates must complete as part of the pre-qualifying

The Vertica Analytics Platform was purpose built from the ground up to enable companies to extract value from their data at the speed and scale they need to thrive in today’s economy. Unlike most other data warehouse vendors that are attempting to retrofit 21st century technology into their decades old infrastructure, Vertica was designed and built since its inception for today’s most demanding analytic workloads. Furthermore, each Vertica component is able to take full-advantage of the others by design.

Yesterday Nimble released the public beta of its social CRM platform at the Demo Spring 2011 event. In a future blog post, I will share my thoughts on the platform after trying the beta release, which is by the way open for invites.
I had the pleasure of speaking with Jon Ferrara (Nimble’s founder and CEO) a while ago, and I wanted you to get some idea of who he is and some of his

Half a year ago, I wrote about the need to include customer input in the design process in What Brings Customers Closer to Your Product Development? Recently, two pieces of Web content caught my attention and made me revisit this topic.
The first one, The Path to Successful New Products, from the recent issue of McKinsey Quarterly, outlined three principles of making product development more